Travel Features & Archives

20-11-2019 – Update.

Join Moth and I as we grab our camera gear and explore both the local area, interstate – Australia, and overseas. We love to explore and go on some amazing adventures, you never know what’s just around the corner or over the next hill…until you go look.

I am calling it Travel Features, as I no longer see a visit to the local park as something boring, it is all travel and all wonderful, 5 mins or 5 days from home anything that gets me out enjoying the sights, the sounds and even sometimes the smells, along with my trusty camera is a good thing. I used to yearn for travel overseas, but I am currently learning to greatly enjoy the local sights as well. My own backyard has wonders that often surprise me.

Join me and Moth (Man of the House) as we revisit our childhood haunts and visit other places that neither of us has been to before.

Week 3

Mentone Beach

April 2015

I love to travel, many says “who doesn’t?” well my MOTH was somewhat a reluctant traveller. He always seems to enjoy the actual holiday but doesn’t like all the organizing nor all the arranging, that’s fine……………..I am an organized freak and I live for that sort of stuff. That has since changed and Moth now enjoys the hunt for places to visit and things to see as much as me.

So I have put all the features I have written about our travels, here in one place, makes’ it easier to find. So join me on a virtual Holiday.

Melbourne & Victoria

• Phillip Island Part 1
• Phillip Island Part 2
• Phillip Island Part 3
• Cape Schank Lighthouse
• Queenscliff Black Lighthouse
• Bellarine Peninsula Part 1
• Bellarine Peninsula Part 2
• Dawn over Melbourne
• Wilson Botanic Gardens, Berwick
• Australian Botanic gardens, Cranbourne
• William Ricketts Sanctuary, Dandenong Ranges
• Williamstown, Hobsons Bay & Port Melbourne Part 1
• Williamstown, Hobsons Bay & Port Melbourne Part 2
• Brighton Beach
• Australian Steam and Locomotive Museum, Newport
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
• Marysville & Taggerty Cascade Waterfalls
• Noojee & Mt Baw Baw
• Halloween in Melbourne
• Great Ocean Road, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7
• Ballarat
• Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens
• Cloude Hill Gardens (2016) | Spring 2018
• Studley Park Boat House
• Blue Lotus Water Gardens
• Sorrento (VIC)
• Point Nepean National Park
• HM Prison Pentridge Ghost Tour
• Victorian Reptile Encounter
• Birds of Prey – Private Bird Experience
• Warburton & Mount Donna Buang
• Warburton – Victoria
• Kryal Castle (Ballarat)
• Snake Valley Astro Shoot
• Alpine National Park Pt 2
• Alpine National Park Pt 1
• Healesville Sanctuary Pt1 & Pt 2
• Hosier Lane (Melbourne CBD)
• Clifton Springs Jetty & Point Lonsdale
• Autumn at Wilson Botanic Gardens
• Spring in the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens
• Beechworth Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
• Bruno’s Sculpture Gardens
• Steavensons Falls, Marysville
• Belgrave
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne & Guilfoyle’s Volcano
• Yarra Glen
• Myuna Farm
• Tenby Point
• Olinda Falls
• Mont de Lancey Homestead
• Yarra River Cruise
• Royal Melbourne Zoo Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 & Part 4
• Werribee Zoo
• Maldon (excerpts from Our Outback Adventure)
• Castlemaine  (excerpts from Our Outback Adventure)
• Inverloch & Walkerville | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day3
• Mount Macedon – Hanging Rock
• Tieve Tara Gardens, Mount Macedon
• Leigh Valley Hawk and Owl Sanctuary, Bird Encounter Part 1 & Part 2
• Jack’s Magazine
• Webb Bridge – Melbourne Docklands
• Australia Gardens, Cranbourne
• Alowyn Gardens, Yarra Gardens
• Leah Valley Hawk & Owl Sanctuary Encounter 
• Warrantina Lavender Farm
• Gippsland – Day 1 | Day 2
• Sand Sculptures Victoria – Frankston 2018
• William Ricketts Sanctuary – 2018
• Pirianda Gardens, Dandenong Ranges (Autumn/Winter 2018)| Spring 2018
• Central Victoria – Trentham, Pyalong, Beveridge, Heathcote
• Phillip Island – Day 1 | Day 2 |  Day 3 | Day 4 |

Australia

• The Goulburn, Mallee and Wimmera regions of Victoria | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 (Nove 2019)
• The Grampians – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |(Sept 2019)
• Kangaroo Island Coastal Adventure – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5.1 | Day 5.2 | Day 5.3 | Day 5.4 | Day 6.1 | Day 6.2 | Day 6.3 | Day 7 |Day 8 | Day 9
• Our Outback  Adventure – Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8
• Uluru (Ayers Rock), NT
• Kings Canyon, NT
• Kata Tjuta, NT
• Exploring Brisbane – Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6
• Tropical Getaway (Cairns, Cape Tribulation, Atherton) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 |
• Tasmania – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 |Day 7 Pt1 &  Pt2 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 | Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 |
• Great Ocean Road, Dec 2021 – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 |
• South Australian Road Trip – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 |
• Lake Tyrrell & Mungo – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 |
• East Gippsland – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 |
• Echuca Moama district – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 |

New Zealand 2015

• Auckland Day 1
• Auckland Day 2
• Auckland to Rotorua (Hobbiton) Day 3
• Rotorua Day 3 Cont’d
• Rotorua Day 4
• Rotorua Day 4 Cont’d
• Akaroa Day 6
• Christchurch Day 6 Cont’d
• Mount Sunday Day 7
• Christchurch – Twizel – Wanaka Day 8
• Wanaka Day 9
• Wanaka – Arrowtown – Queenstown – Day 10
• Queenstown Day 11
• Queenstown -Te Anau – Day 12
• Te Anau – Milford Sound – Day 13
• Te Anau – Melbourne Day 14

New Zealand – North Island 2019

| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 13 | Day 14 | Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 | Day 21 | Auckland’s Domain Winter Garden |

Bali – October 2017

• Ubud; Pura Taman (Lotus Garden)Temple, Coffee Plantations, Monkey Forest –Day 1 | Day 2 |
• Ubud; Barong Dance, Tenegungan Waterfall, Goa Gajah (Elephant Caves),  Day 3 Pt 1
• Ubud; Mount Bator, Tirtha Empul (Holy Spring Temple), and the White Herons –  Day 3 Pt 2
• Ubud – The Elephant Sanctuary- Day 4
• Ubud; Pura Taman Uyun Temple, Tanah Lot, Ulun Danu Temple, – Day 5
• Ubud; Bali Zoo –  Day 6
• Ubud to Keramas (Wedding) – Day 7
• Keramas, Komune Resort, Sunrise and Surfing – Day 8
• Mara River Safari Lodge and the Balis Safari Park –  Day 9
• Keramas – Nusa Lembongan- Day 10
• Nusa Lembongan – Day 11 |Day 12 |

So I hope you have enjoyed our travels, stop by from time to time, as I gradually add to it

– Julz & Moth (Man of the House)